January 15, 2013 — The U.S. Coast Guard is examining underwater photographs of what has been described as widespread wreckage of the 45-foot long, Gloucester-based fishing vessel Foxy Lady II, which vanished in mid-December with a crew of two scallopers who lived in Maine.
The wreckage was discovered between Gloucester and Provincetown on Friday.
Photographers from the Massachusetts Environmental Police were in the water Saturday gathering evidence of the catastrophe, which yielded no sign of the two-man crew, Captain Wallace “Chubby” Gray II, 26, and Wayne Young, 50, both of Deer Isle, Maine. Gray was identified by the family as Young’s nephew.
Adam Stanton, a public affairs specialist for Coast Guard Sector Boston, said, “there are several different pinpoints of wreckage,” making it impossible to say precisely where the boat was immediately before it went down. “There are pieces everywhere.”
The photographers from the Massachusetts Environmental Police “dived on several pieces,” and the Coast Guard was studying the photos to get an understanding of what happened to the Foxy Lady II.
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